TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

A flurry of recent activity surrounding student debt repayment, including government policies, like the SECURE ACT 2.0, passed by Congress in December, created provisions for employers to match student loan payments for those with debt while also adding to retirement accounts. Attorneys’ Office and the Boston Consulting Group.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Student privacy. Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2011

Graduate student Maria Georgakarakou, who is blind, gave us a rave review for the Read2Go app which allows those with print disabilities to listen to books in the DAISY audio format. Maria also noted that students like herself are finding more scholarly books on Bookshare which expands her ability to research.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

The Philadelphia Phillies offer behind-the-scenes tours and clinics for their female fans, while the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees offer fantasy camps that are geared to women. At womens colleges such as Smith and Vassar, students organized baseball teams as early as 1866. It wasnt always this way. since at least the 1860s.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Cofounded by Miguel Galvez, who used to work at TechStars; MIT PhD student Andy McTeague; and Deckard Sorensen, a biochemist. The Boston Globe had a bit more: NBD Nano is one of those companies you naturally root for.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

For Mentor Collective , a Boston-based startup founded in 2014, answers to the challenges and opportunities within scaled mentorship have taken time to figure out. Even though it took a really long time to get to where we are, we feel confident to spend this money and know it won’t negatively impact students,” Boyar said. “It

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Founded in Philadelphia in 2007 as CityRyde and now headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Zagster helps property managers, hotels, businesses and universities across North America offer bike sharing programs to tenants, employees, guests and students. Entrepreneur Insider Videos'

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2012

in schools, libraries, local governments, and nonprofits, it was tough to choose just one to profile this week, but I chose YouthBuild Boston because of my fondness for green tech. YouthBuild Boston's Work. YouthBuild Boston works with inner city at-risk teenagers to do real-world construction projects.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

City Spotlight: Boston Register for the free event here! Boston has always had a robust university-to-startup pipeline, but the last decade has supercharged it, as well as student aspirations to found the next unicorn, change the world, or do both at the same time. Register for the free virtual event here.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. The Boston Foundation. California Community Foundation. Lilly Endowment Inc.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Founded in 2015, the Boston-based startup started making waves a few years back as a spinout of MIT mechanical engineering students. First serving up food at the school’s dining hall, the team ultimately opened a pair of automated restaurants in the Boston area.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 1, 2004

I've been in Boston this week, and had the opportunity to visit WGBH/NCAM (nation's leading captioning group for the disabled), National Braille Press, as well as folks at BU, MIT and Harvard. Normally I like to talk to students, but the timing at the beginning of the academic year was not ideal.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 18, 2006

PCs for poor students. I had a great meeting with Timothy Anderson, the head of the World Computer Exchange , on a recent visit to Boston. I have watched his project as it's grown over the past few years.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Increase Collaboration and Engagement for Students, Faculty, and Staff. Arizona State University (ASU), for instance, needed an easier way for its students, faculty, and staff to communicate, share lesson plans, and gather feedback. In addition, workflows help set up students for success with Slack and other learning tools.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Tyton Partners estimates that 7 million students were enrolled in supplemental learning pods last year, which drove $12 billion in new spend. The Boston-based startup wants to be the go-to platform for online learners and learning pod families to get in-person interactions into their curriculum. Tired of ‘Zoom University’?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

TC Early Stage takes place on April 20 in Boston. Buy your ticket today — student tickets start at just $99! Are you ready for some green on 4/20? No, not that green. It’s TechCrunch Early Stage 2023! Cut to Mark Wahlberg speeding down the Big Dig, accelerating toward a dream.*

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We’re searching for outstanding volunteers to support our events team and help make TechCrunch Early Stage , our one-day founder summit taking place on April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts, an awesome experience for our attendees. Either way, we can’t wait to see you in Boston! Not interested in volunteering but still want to attend?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Get ready for a Cheers reference because, like the Boston bar where everybody knows your name , we’re issuing a last call for tickets to TC Early Stage taking place this Thursday, April 20 in — where else — Boston. College students pay just $99. Buy a pass while you still can, and we’ll see you in Boston.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

In her presentation at last week’s TechCrunch Early Stage event in Boston, SOSV general partner Pae Wu tossed out the tongue-in-cheek phrase “recovering academic” to describe founders in the firm’s IndieBio program. One can certainly appreciate why such founders sometimes attempt to keep a foot in each world.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

That’s why we’ve made sure that TechCrunch Early Stage in Boston on April 20 is all about you, the early-stage founder. Book your pass today — college students pay just $99! Networking is about you , your future, and everything you need to get your business connected at the next level. Feel all the eyes on you? That’s a good thing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Now, nearly a year since students were first sent home because of the coronavirus, a cohort of edtech companies is emerging, emboldened with millions in venture capital, ready to take back the market. Upon joining the platform, each student is placed at a virtual table with another small group of students.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Harvard University Students Running NYC Marathon in Boston for Hurricane Sandy | BostInno : On Sunday, Baker and Whitmore, both Harvard University seniors, did their own 26.2-mile mile marathon, here in Boston, while raising money to support those in need who were impacted by the furious October storm.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

We’re searching for outstanding volunteers to support our events team and help make TechCrunch Early Stage , our one-day founder summit taking place on April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts, an awesome experience for our attendees. Either way, we can’t wait to see you in Boston! Not interested in volunteering but still want to attend?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

It was one of the most exciting examples of robotics engineering since Boston Dynamics first made the scene. Having students using the robots and a whole pipeline of people not only helps us, but it helps the whole infrastructure.”. Commercial applications, however, are a different conversation entirely. asks Hurst. From lab to launch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

We’re thrilled to tell you that Matt Segneri , the executive director of the Harvard Innovation Labs, will tackle these and other related questions at TechCrunch Early Stage on April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts. Save $200 with an early-bird founder ticket — college students pay just $99!

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Candid

MAY 2, 2023

She responded, “Hmm, I am going to Boston University. It was the perfect combination to help this “average” high school student excel and graduate at the top of her class. There was a time when HBCUs were the only option for Black students in higher education; I don’t have to go back too far in my lineage for that to be true.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This is cost-competitive, says C-Crete CEO Rouzbeh Savary, who began working on a more sustainable cement alternative as a PhD student at MIT. Sublime first poured concrete for a building in Boston a year ago, and won a DOE award in December to build a new, clean-cement factory in Massachusetts.)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Paerpay (Boston) — A contactless payment platform that doesn’t require additional hardware or app downloads. Phood (Boulder) — A startup digitizing university student cards so they can be used payments in various online services. .) — An online wishlist, planning tool and retailer for cancer patients and their supporters.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Boston Dynamics has done a lot to imbue its quadrupedal robots with personality, through design language and viral videos of Spot and company busting a move to the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. The robot is also a fraction of the size of Boston Dynamics’ quadruped. Go check the replies on Twitter. Image Credits: Xiaomi.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

A lifelong champion of equity and fairness, and a proud product of the City of Boston, Secretary Walsh leads the U.S. Prior to his appointment, Walsh served as the mayor of Boston from 2014 to 2021, where he led the creation of close to 140,000 jobs and helped secure a statewide $15/hour minimum wage, paid sick leave and paid parental leave.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

TechCrunch covered favorites from Techstars’ three Demo Days, which were focused on Chicago, Boston and workforce development. TechCrunch’s favorites from Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and workforce accelerators. A Dallas-based founder looks to tackle the student loan crisis with his startup, College Cash.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

The doors to TechCrunch Early Stage (Boston Edition) open in just three days, and we cannot wait to meet and greet you! Student passes cost just $99. on April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts. We can’t wait to meet and greet you in Boston! If you haven’t booked your pass yet, hurry! We’re running low on tickets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

We have only 7 days left of early-bird pricing to TechCrunch Early Stage 2023 in Boston on April 20. Founders save $200 with an early-bird founder ticket — college students pay just $99! Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Examples include Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath) , Shriver Job Corps , International Institute of New England , JFYnet , Jobs For the Future , National Fund for Workforce Solutions, SkillWorks , Boston PIC , YearUp , and Massachusetts Department of Labor and Workforce Development. students in this field.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Around 40% of the students are girls. The live classes will have around 15-20 students each, but Thimble additionally offers a package for small groups that reduces class size. The remaining 30% are those where the parents are looking to introduce the concepts of robotics and programming, to see if the kids show an interest.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston.

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